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JJ glad you have had success with that product as that is the very product I brought home this weekend. Hope to put it to use over the holiday weekend coming up. flanman

Thanx for the help I will see what I can get done this weekend. flanman

Alright now I have the proper wrench but I'll be damned if I can loosen that barrel bolt. I am not sure this gun has been dissassembled since 1907. Any thoughts on loosening things up? thanx flanman

Thank you I will see what I can do for sighting it in with the wide and narrow opening and telescoping. Sounds like I might need several loooonnng days at the range and thus not be able to complete my honey do list flanman

Thanx again I will see what I can find in blue at Wally-World. flanman

OK friend of mine at the gunshop took an aperature rear sight off a Model 8 he ahs for sale and gave it to me for my Model 8. :D Just finished cleaing several decades worth of dirt and grim off of it and now I have a question about markings. With it well cleaned I can now see lines on the aperature ...

Got the sight yesterday, will clean and scrub today. Where do I find the blue thread locker?

Thank you for the follow-up. I will be getting an aperature sight early next week and will only be disassembling and cleaning with a little shooting as I have learned that you are correct four digit SN in working condition is not a project rifle as a Model 8 but a collector piece( not nec greatest v...

Slowly I am learning what is what. I now know the swivel is not for a sling but is the forestock screw and the hole in the back of the receiver is not a bubba job but a missing aperature sight. Any ideas on where I get one and how I ensure it is period correct for a 1908 Model 8? flanman

Well I stopped at my local gun shop looking for a summer project. The goal was to find a rifle to strip down literally to bare wood and shiny metal then refinish the wood and reblue it. Well as a Colt man( dont hit the monitor and yell at me yet) I was not aware of what a Model 8 was until I got hom...

Thank you I had thought that was a sling mount so was hesitant to mess with it too much until I knew for sure. flanman

Ihave seen where the take down screw is behind the fore end but how do I get the fore end off in the forst place? flanman